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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792264103321

Autore

Sexton Jay <1978->

Titolo

Debtor diplomacy [[electronic resource] ] : finance and American foreign relations in the Civil War era, 1837-1873 / / Jay Sexton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon, 2005

ISBN

0-19-021258-6

0-19-151567-1

1-4294-7094-1

1-280-75856-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

Oxford historical monographs

Disciplina

327.7304109034

Soggetti

Debts, External - United States - History - 19th century

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Finance

United States Foreign economic relations Great Britain

Great Britain Foreign economic relations United States

United States Economic conditions 19th century

United States Foreign relations 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Finance and Foreign Relations in the Mid-nineteenth Century; 1. The Baring Years, 1837-1861; 2. Union Finance and Diplomacy; 3. Confederate Finance and Diplomacy; 4. ''Were it not for our Debt,'' 1865-1873; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The United States was a debtor nation in the mid-nineteenth century, with half of its debt held overseas. The need to obtain foreign capital greatly influenced American foreign policy, principally relations with Britain. The intersection of finance and diplomacy was particularly evident during the Civil War when both the North and South integrated attempts to procure loans from European banks into their larger international strategies. Drawing on the unused archives of London banks and the papers of statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic, this work explores a central theme of mid-nineteenth-century